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dunce

[duhns] / dʌns /


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If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete.

From Salon • May 5, 2023

But dunce caps aside, the irony is that Xi’s critique of Big Tech is similar to recent debates in the United States.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2021

In my view, the biggest mistake scientists make is to claim that this is all somehow simple and therefore to imply that anyone who doesn't get it is a dunce.

From Scientific American • Jul. 8, 2021

Pena insists that his path to success, power, and money started in grammar school, when he was forced to wear a dunce hat.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2021

And the manufacturers and importers and salesmen down on their knees, repenting in public, conical paper hats like dunce hats on their heads, shame printed on them in red.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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